A promise is unlike other spoken words: It binds the promiser and the promised in a bond that isn’t lightly broken.
In his short story, “Faithful to the End,” Clair W. Perry contemplates the significance and power of a simple promise. Perry writes of a young soldier who makes a promise to a strange girl. Though it was made in haste, the promise creates a powerful bond between the two, which the war threatens to tear asunder.
